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Originally Posted by auralex14
Jay, when everyone is disagreeing with you I suggest you reevaluate your position.
Also, why are you assuming that by late regging a player is doomed to mincash as the best result? Sure, he'll be relatively short when he enters, but if he knows how to play a short stack (let's assume Danny does) then all it takes is one double up and he'll have plenty of chips to work with. There is still so much of a tournament left to be played once the money is reached.
I played an Ignition tourney a few weeks ago and I was the 5th last to enter a field of 800 or so and I finished 2nd.
You're wrong dude, let it go.
In this all or nothing forum, things get exaggerated, so the comment that everyone is disagreeing with me is incorrect.
This is an issue I have thought a lot about in the last month, and explored the situation of late regging, as it is tempting to buy in late, when lots have been knocked out, and the remaining players have a good chance of cashing. And I have been watching how other late reggers do. And I have reached the conclusions that I have posted on this thread.
I think a risk is that is gives one a false sense of success, as one looks as though one has had a longer run in a tournament than one really had, as one is regularly close to the money, or in the money with min cashes. But as we all know, the real money is made from final tables, and the short stack late entry style isn't geared to final tables, as you need so many double ups just to have a threatening stack. But most of the time it is boring short stack with not much room to play creatively.
You are wrong, one double up just before late regging closes makes minimal difference to ones stack, as blinds are so high you will only have won another round of blinds, so you are in a hole it is really hard to get out of.
Short stack works great in cash games, but is a poor strategy in tournaments.
Results prove things conclusively, so I suggest you keep a record of late entries and early entries, and then see for yourself which is more profitable.
In his latest vid he says, “We are not trying to run around and trying to get into as many tournaments as possible… We are not burning up equity.” The problem is, when one is entering three or five tournaments a day, mostly late regging, and is having poor results, the entry strategy looks flawed.
I see the good and bad in everything, and Negreanu is very much an attention seeking person, and he has a blind spot that some of the attention he seeks is not good attention to have, ie his publicly sharing his life with Marissa was a mistake, as it just opened up the door to all the comments that followed, and he is making the same mistake with his wife now, so something that is supposed to be private and personal, like a relationship, just ends up a public mess, shaped by judgemental people that don't even know the two people involved. He is so self absorbed he cant even see she does not like having her privacy invaded in this way. And getting married just before a WSOP, so pretty much being unavailable at the start of the marriage wasn't well thought out timing, so hopefully they can have some quality time together, as at the moment she is just second place to his poker, so no wonder she is not looking too engaged in the vids, as all women like to feel important in a relationship. So a situation when she spend more time with Eddie than her new husband isn't exactly well thought through. And his good side was shown by him taking the time to respond to post I made about his rake stance, where he answered carefully explaining his thinking, so his engagement with the poker community is good for poker, just as long as he thinks about what the benefits actually are for whatever he puts out there.
